Affluenza, Politics and One of My Heroes

Moral decline, the need of “The Left” in politics, Affluenza, our happiness, our obsession with consumption, social justice, fulfillment, and more. All these issues are Clive Hammilton’s favorite topics. He is the author of my favorite book of 2005 “Affluenza”, when he speaks, I always sit up and listen. He speaks into our culture in a way that makes more and more sense to me. He is gutsy, he refuses to speak ‘popular’ messages, he does good research…yes, he is one of my Aussie heroes!This is a great interview with him on ABC RN. It comes in about half way through, after some talk with Jensen (Sydney Anglicans first)

3 thoughts on “Affluenza, Politics and One of My Heroes”

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.

Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.

When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.

There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.

People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.

Emotion ends.

Man becomes machine.

A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

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I sometimes make things in my shed from wood, I drink coffee with people for a living, I read, I walk, I paddle, I spend time discovering stuff about a person called Jesus and I live with and love Mikaela, Andy and Sophie my three kids and Christine my amazing wife...and Max my Border Collie...and some chooks...and a rabbit called chook.